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Anonymous wrote:I was shopping today in Bethesda. So nice to be Mask Optional and even store personnel ditching them. I’m going to be spending my dollars on VA and MD until this is lifted in DC- not that I actually still wear a mask in DC anymore

How does a parent who lives in DC have the freaking time to run errands in both Maryland and VA? Usually DC families who live a little closer to either might have big box store habits in the nearer suburb, but usually the other one is completely beyond the pale. I'm in NW DC and don't think I've been in Virginia is over a year! Similarly, Capitol Hill moms, how long has it been since Maryland actually offered you something worth hauling out there for?

I feel like this conversation was likely hijacked by people who are not DC stakeholders.

You're right. No on in this area commutes beyond a convenient radius from their home. No one has a job taking them on multiple site visits throughout the area over the course of the day.

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Anonymous wrote:I was shopping today in Bethesda. So nice to be Mask Optional and even store personnel ditching them. I’m going to be spending my dollars on VA and MD until this is lifted in DC- not that I actually still wear a mask in DC anymore

How does a parent who lives in DC have the freaking time to run errands in both Maryland and VA? Usually DC families who live a little closer to either might have big box store habits in the nearer suburb, but usually the other one is completely beyond the pale. I'm in NW DC and don't think I've been in Virginia is over a year! Similarly, Capitol Hill moms, how long has it been since Maryland actually offered you something worth hauling out there for?

I feel like this conversation was likely hijacked by people who are not DC stakeholders.

I live in Petworth and frequently shop in MD. Never Va. though, but then again I couldn't tell you the last time I went to the Hill either.

But I don't wear a mask in DC anymore and no one bothers me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was shopping today in Bethesda. So nice to be Mask Optional and even store personnel ditching them. I’m going to be spending my dollars on VA and MD until this is lifted in DC- not that I actually still wear a mask in DC anymore

How does a parent who lives in DC have the freaking time to run errands in both Maryland and VA? Usually DC families who live a little closer to either might have big box store habits in the nearer suburb, but usually the other one is completely beyond the pale. I'm in NW DC and don't think I've been in Virginia is over a year! Similarly, Capitol Hill moms, how long has it been since Maryland actually offered you something worth hauling out there for?

I feel like this conversation was likely hijacked by people who are not DC stakeholders.

I live in NW DC as well and my kids go to school here. Don't you ever shop Bethesda Row area? I'm going to make a point of finding a grocery store in Chevy Chase/ Bethesda, as well, until the DC mask mandate is ended.

Only a few times a year. It would be a half hour drive for me (I live centrally in NWDC) and that means it would have to offer me something I can't get any closer. Unless you're positively dripping with free time, I can't see how that's a rational choice. There are 4 grocery stores within 5 blocks of my home, so again, it doesn't make any sense to add on to a hectic day for a completely irrational aversion to masks. I own so little of my time as it is.

You may live closer to Maryland, it also follows that Virginia becomes even less convenient for you than it is for me. No way you're going there too for the same stuff you can get in your own neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:I was shopping today in Bethesda. So nice to be Mask Optional and even store personnel ditching them. I’m going to be spending my dollars on VA and MD until this is lifted in DC- not that I actually still wear a mask in DC anymore

How does a parent who lives in DC have the freaking time to run errands in both Maryland and VA? Usually DC families who live a little closer to either might have big box store habits in the nearer suburb, but usually the other one is completely beyond the pale. I'm in NW DC and don't think I've been in Virginia is over a year! Similarly, Capitol Hill moms, how long has it been since Maryland actually offered you something worth hauling out there for?

I feel like this conversation was likely hijacked by people who are not DC stakeholders.

I live in NW DC as well and my kids go to school here. Don't you ever shop Bethesda Row area? I'm going to make a point of finding a grocery store in Chevy Chase/ Bethesda, as well, until the DC mask mandate is ended.

Despite the masks, DC seems to have a positive reproductive rate again. I doubt the mandate is going anywhere soon.

Fairfax currently has a strongly declining rate without a mandate. Winter will change that for a bit. Still...

Anonymous wrote:I was shopping today in Bethesda. So nice to be Mask Optional and even store personnel ditching them. I’m going to be spending my dollars on VA and MD until this is lifted in DC- not that I actually still wear a mask in DC anymore

How does a parent who lives in DC have the freaking time to run errands in both Maryland and VA? Usually DC families who live a little closer to either might have big box store habits in the nearer suburb, but usually the other one is completely beyond the pale. I'm in NW DC and don't think I've been in Virginia is over a year! Similarly, Capitol Hill moms, how long has it been since Maryland actually offered you something worth hauling out there for?

I feel like this conversation was likely hijacked by people who are not DC stakeholders.

I was shopping today in Bethesda. So nice to be Mask Optional and even store personnel ditching them. I’m going to be spending my dollars on VA and MD until this is lifted in DC- not that I actually still wear a mask in DC anymore

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it a mask "mandate" if it's barely enforced, especially when it comes to indoor dining and drinking? It's more like a mask "suggestion."

Can't speak for MoCo, but when I went to my gym in DC, they enforced it pretty strictly. Heard the same from a friend doing a group fitness class.

It’s a crime that restaurants can require a vaccine card and ignore the mandate (keeps out the riff raft), while gyms have to do this ridiculous charade. Bowser is such an idiot.

It really punishes some businesses over others (which the threat of a lawsuit for unequal enforcement of the law would expose). At the Wizards game on Saturday night they enforced the mandate half heartedly in the walkways / concession areas, and not at all when people sat down (packed in tightly and screaming). But at my local small gym, they live under threat of being fined or shut down by some officious mask busybody EVERY DAY.

At this point, the logic of the people who want masks in perpetuity would mean we must wear them in every shared public space forever, because they might catch the flu, etc. We should stop this kind of reasoning right now. It's insane.

Personally, we should all stop wearing one and when someone asks, respond, "I follow Mayor Bowser's masking policy. I wear one when I feel like it."

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What you're missing here is the element of choice. You, as a healthy person who has never had to worry about beating the odds to stay alive, can choose to engage in relatively risky behavior like going to an indoor restaurant. Lots of us who have ample experience with poor health and the limits it imposes on our behavior can easily choose to avoid that particular risk. So far so good.

But we may work in the same office, though, and I can't afford to share the risks you so freely engage in. I also can't afford to quit the job. It may be ypothetically possible for me to avoid grocery stores, but that imposes a greater burden on the medically vulnerable than your just wearingn a mask when you're not out carousing like someone without a care in the world.

The cdc says you can have four shots. Plus you can wear an N-95. Four shots plus an n-95 is an unparalleled amount of protection. You don’t need me the next aisle over in Home Depot to wear a cotton mask too. Sorry.

Well, similarly, you don't need to walk around without a mask when you're not eating or drinking. I feel like having some real problems would really help you develop an adult perspective here. How charmed must your life be that having to wear a mask is your biggest problem?! I'd trade places with your spoiled ass very happily, thank you very much.

You should put this anger towards helping more of the city's population get vaccinated.

You can lead a horse to water...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it a mask "mandate" if it's barely enforced, especially when it comes to indoor dining and drinking? It's more like a mask "suggestion."

Can't speak for MoCo, but when I went to my gym in DC, they enforced it pretty strictly. Heard the same from a friend doing a group fitness class.

It’s a crime that restaurants can require a vaccine card and ignore the mandate (keeps out the riff raft), while gyms have to do this ridiculous charade. Bowser is such an idiot.

It really punishes some businesses over others (which the threat of a lawsuit for unequal enforcement of the law would expose). At the Wizards game on Saturday night they enforced the mandate half heartedly in the walkways / concession areas, and not at all when people sat down (packed in tightly and screaming). But at my local small gym, they live under threat of being fined or shut down by some officious mask busybody EVERY DAY.

At this point, the logic of the people who want masks in perpetuity would mean we must wear them in every shared public space forever, because they might catch the flu, etc. We should stop this kind of reasoning right now. It's insane.

Personally, we should all stop wearing one and when someone asks, respond, "I follow Mayor Bowser's masking policy. I wear one when I feel like it."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What you're missing here is the element of choice. You, as a healthy person who has never had to worry about beating the odds to stay alive, can choose to engage in relatively risky behavior like going to an indoor restaurant. Lots of us who have ample experience with poor health and the limits it imposes on our behavior can easily choose to avoid that particular risk. So far so good.

But we may work in the same office, though, and I can't afford to share the risks you so freely engage in. I also can't afford to quit the job. It may be ypothetically possible for me to avoid grocery stores, but that imposes a greater burden on the medically vulnerable than your just wearingn a mask when you're not out carousing like someone without a care in the world.

The cdc says you can have four shots. Plus you can wear an N-95. Four shots plus an n-95 is an unparalleled amount of protection. You don’t need me the next aisle over in Home Depot to wear a cotton mask too. Sorry.

Well, similarly, you don't need to walk around without a mask when you're not eating or drinking. I feel like having some real problems would really help you develop an adult perspective here. How charmed must your life be that having to wear a mask is your biggest problem?! I'd trade places with your spoiled ass very happily, thank you very much.

You should put this anger towards helping more of the city's population get vaccinated.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it a mask "mandate" if it's barely enforced, especially when it comes to indoor dining and drinking? It's more like a mask "suggestion."

Can't speak for MoCo, but when I went to my gym in DC, they enforced it pretty strictly. Heard the same from a friend doing a group fitness class.

It’s a crime that restaurants can require a vaccine card and ignore the mandate (keeps out the riff raft), while gyms have to do this ridiculous charade. Bowser is such an idiot.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it a mask "mandate" if it's barely enforced, especially when it comes to indoor dining and drinking? It's more like a mask "suggestion."

Can't speak for MoCo, but when I went to my gym in DC, they enforced it pretty strictly. Heard the same from a friend doing a group fitness class.

Gyms might be, but bars and restaurants are not enforcing this at all in DC. People have their masks on when they enter but then immediately take them off when they sit down, even when food/drinks aren't present.

Anonymous wrote:Is it a mask "mandate" if it's barely enforced, especially when it comes to indoor dining and drinking? It's more like a mask "suggestion."

Can't speak for MoCo, but when I went to my gym in DC, they enforced it pretty strictly. Heard the same from a friend doing a group fitness class.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What you're missing here is the element of choice. You, as a healthy person who has never had to worry about beating the odds to stay alive, can choose to engage in relatively risky behavior like going to an indoor restaurant. Lots of us who have ample experience with poor health and the limits it imposes on our behavior can easily choose to avoid that particular risk. So far so good.

But we may work in the same office, though, and I can't afford to share the risks you so freely engage in. I also can't afford to quit the job. It may be ypothetically possible for me to avoid grocery stores, but that imposes a greater burden on the medically vulnerable than your just wearingn a mask when you're not out carousing like someone without a care in the world.

The cdc says you can have four shots. Plus you can wear an N-95. Four shots plus an n-95 is an unparalleled amount of protection. You don’t need me the next aisle over in Home Depot to wear a cotton mask too. Sorry.

Well, similarly, you don't need to walk around without a mask when you're not eating or drinking. I feel like having some real problems would really help you develop an adult perspective here. How charmed must your life be that having to wear a mask is your biggest problem?! I'd trade places with your spoiled ass very happily, thank you very much.

Not PP, but it's not even close to my biggest problem, which is why I feel no need to add one addition burden (no matter how minor) to my life.

So far not a single person has been bothered enough to say anything to me, so it may just be an issue inside your own head.

+1. This PP also sounds really dramatic, which doesn’t help. “Beating the odds to stay alive”… if you are this sick or medically fragile, you know how to protect yourself. Telling random people on the internet that they’re so reckless for eating indoors is not going to protect you.